Gas-burner.



PATENTED AUG. 9, 1 904. R. STIGKDORN.

GAS BURNER.

APPLIOA'IION FILED ran. 16. 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

N0 MODEL.

PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904.

R. STIGKDORN.

GAS BURNER.

APPLIUATION FILED 2m. 1a. 1904.

2 8HIJETS-SHEET 2.

N0 MODEL.

Patented August 9, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT STICKDORN, OF BONN, GERMANY.

GAS-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,019, dated August 9, 1904.

Application filed February 16, 1904. Serial No- 19S.817. \No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT STIoKDoRN, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Bonn, in the Kingdom of Prussia, (lirermany, have invented a new and useful Gas-Burner, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a gas-burner in which the flame is automatically regulated, so

as to be uniform under a varying gas-pressure.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a longitudinal section of the burner. Fig. 2 is a part section and part side view. Figs. 3 to 7 represent cross-sections of the same; Fig. 8, a section of the gas-igniting device; Fig. 9, a similar view showing the parts in a different position; Fig. 10, a detail, of the pressure-button, and Fig. 11 a detail cross-section through the disks and adjoining parts.

The regulating-valve consists of a tube 7a, furnished with lateral openings or slits, which is connected with a piston or disk (0, moving in a cylinder A, and which rises or falls, accordingto the variations in the pressure of the gas, thus permitting of the entry of more or less gas into the passage, whereby the slits are stopped and closed in proportion.

Underneath the disk (1., to which is soldered or otherwise rigidly attached the slotted tube h, which moves in the passage 2,, is a disk Z). The disk a is furnished with an opening 0, and the disk Z) is in its turn supplied with an opening (Z. The disk 6 is pivoted on the disk at, as shown in Fig. 11, and the gas passes more or less quickly, accordingly as the holes 0 and (Z in the disks (0 and 7) cover or engage more or less one over the other, and the tube 71, answers to the varying pressure of the gas accordingly as the feed-hole is distended or contracted. In order to regulate the disk, and thereby also the passage from the exterior, there is a small lever c, which with the aid of a catch enables the disk 7) to be turned. he disk is supplied with a pin, tongue, or similar contrivance a, into which the catch engages. It can, as shown in the drawings, consist of a fork 9, between the prongs of which is the tongue 2. The catch 9 is connected with the lever a by the axis on. When the lever is turned, the nose engages into one or the other of the prongs of the fork, according to 5 the direction in which it is turned, and carries it and the disk 7) along. To prevent the disk a turning with it, a pin x, held in the threaded neck of cylinder A, is passed through the passage or, which arrangement, besides preventing the disk from turning, serves as a guide for the tube 71.. As the disks a and 7), with the tube 71,, must be easy of movement, the respective prongs must not rest against the catch 2; otherwise it would occasion friction. To avoid this, means have been found, as shown especially in Figs. 4 and 5, to return the fork to its normal position. This may be effected by means of a weight or sprin In the present instance two spiral 5 springs f have been employed, which act evenly on the lever 0, thus holding it in its middle or normal position. For the lighting flame there is a tube 0* in the middle of the burner, whereas the gas for the full light 7 passes through the passages I1 I in the rotatable case 0 and the stationary body 1;, so that by turning the case 0 the passage is opened or closed.

The gas enters through the lateral openings g of the head a: in the chamber a and from thence when the case is moved accordingly through the passages or openings lof the body into the passages Z of the case 0 and again from here through the other openings I of the body 2 into the chamber 71, in the top 2'" of which are the eXit-holes;I When the case 0 is so turned by means of the catch 0' that the passages 2' do not come over the openings Z and Z, (see Fig. 7,) the current is shut off. 5

The tube 0, which is inthe body of the apparatus and which serves to feed the lightingflame, is at the bottom connected with thehead a; and is thus not influenced by the turning of the case 0, so that the current remains al- 9 ways the same. The tube '1" joins up with the tube r, on which is the burner and which is connected with the removable case It. The lighting-flames, which are about in the middle of the apparatus, are fully protected against drafts and cannot very well be extinguished. To permit an ignition or extinction of the flames from a distance or a remote room, there is provided a casing 0 which is so placed that an impulse of the air will turn it in one direction and a suction in the other. This turning is accomplished by means of a piston w, provided in a cylinder w, which piston engages in the said case 0 through a rod. A conduit 8, which may be a pipe or hose, connects the said cylinder with an air-compressor and exhauster consisting of a piston and cylinder or, as is shown on the drawings, of a casing g and a membrane g On exerting a pressure on the button 19, connected by a shaft with the said membrane, the latter will be pressed toward the bottom of the casing in opposite direction to the action of a spring 9 and the air forced through the conduit and act upon the piston w, which turns the casing 0 in such way that the gas can float through the aforesaid passages and ignite by the aforesaid little lighting-flame. The button thus pressed down is kept in position by a latch 0, and whenreleased from the latter the spring g presses the membrane back, thus effecting a suction or exhaustion of the gas, and thereby a reverse movement of the piston w and casing 0 a closing of the aforesaid passages, and an extinction of the flame. The said conduits may be connected with a large number of burners, in which case the ignition or extinction of a number of flames maybe accomplished all at one time.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a gas-burner, a cylinder combined with an inclosed perforated piston, a perforated disk pivoted to the piston, means for rotating the disk, and a slotted tube secured to the piston, substantially as specified.

2. In a gas-burner, a cylinder combined with an inclosed perforated piston, a slotted tube secured to the piston, a pin engaging the tube-slot, a perforated disk pivoted to the piston, and means for rotating the disk, substantially as specified.

3; In a gas-burner, a cylinder combined With an inclosed perforated piston, a disk pivoted to the piston and having a perforation adapted to register with the piston-perforation, a pin on the disk, a spring-influenced fork engaging the pin, and means for tilting the fork, substantially as specified.

Signed by me, at Dusseldorf, Germany, this 13th day of January, 1904.

ROBERT STICKDORN.

Nitnesses WILLIAM ESSENWEIN, PETER LIEBER. 

